Ballet is a very complete exercise that works your body, mind and soul. It brings you incalculable benefits. One of the most important things about Classical Ballet is that it is considered one of the most complete physical exercises in the world.
The aspects that dancers show in their results are their physical conditioning, which mainly involves psychological balance, body balance and flexibility. See what the main benefits of practicing Ballet are:
- It improves your breathing, as it ends up controlling your breathing frequency more and stimulates blood circulation in your lungs.
- Improves your posture, Ballet always works with awareness of the positioning of your spine, neck, focusing on the back and abdomen to maintain positions.
- It works on your flexibility, the movements are performed in an elongated way, which ends up bringing about a natural range of motion for the body, since the basic steps to the most elaborate ones involve stretching.
- It works on your agility and precision of movements, as Ballet movements are clean, precise, with measured times, with the rhythm of Ballet.
- Strengthens your muscles, any exercise that uses strength, whether repeated quickly or slowly, our muscles begin to develop intelligently to better withstand stimuli, whether in the muscles of the legs, glutes, abdomen, arms or even the heart.
- It works your abdominal muscles and reduces your measurements, as the Ballet posture is almost like an eternal abdominal exercise.
- Improves your motor coordination for small and large movements, usually worked in sets, your hips, arms and head.
- It stimulates your cardiovascular conditioning, with controlled breathing, plus the stimulation of blood circulation, so your heart feels the need to work harder and become more resistant.
- It promotes your sense of well-being, because activities done with music release more endorphins, it ends up improving the central nervous system, providing an increase in self-esteem, which reduces your symptoms of depression and anxiety, and also maintains control over your appetite.
- It promotes your body awareness, ends up making you maintain muscles that you didn't even know existed, so you learn to control them.
All of these benefits mentioned above bring other benefits derived from them, such as: improving your posture immediately frees you from some back pain; strengthening muscles and improving flexibility prevents knee and ankle pain caused by cartilage deficiencies, as you learn to better balance the distribution of weight in your way of walking; there is also the fact that you have much more body awareness and motor coordination, which greatly improves your perception of small injuries, as you begin to notice the muscles, bones, nerves and everything that works when you make minimal movements.
Ballet helps us get to know our bodies better, our strengths and limitations, and makes us feel stronger and more energetic. Ballet also helps us lose weight in a healthy way, as it is an extremely functional exercise, with various types of dance helping us lose weight.